Experimenting with tomatoes and apricots

I bought about 15 pounds of produce over the weekend at the local farmers’ market. Apricots, peaches, cherry tomatoes and a lot of assorted greens. I’m a pretty decent cook but not one to just make up stuff. After work today, extremely sore from working out the last two days and dead tired…I just looked at my fridge and just literally threw a bunch of stuff together that might taste good.

So I just threw in some cherry tomatoes, apricots, garlic, red onions and some basil into a pan, drizzled with olive oil, sprinkled garlic salt on it…then put it into the oven to roast. I don’t know what I was looking for when I decided that it was “ready” but I took it out after 20 minutes. The tomatoes were almost “ready to burst?” and the apricots looked like I could mash them with my fork. I put it over some angel hair pasta. Surprisingly enough, it turned out great. I’m taking the rest to work for lunch tomorrow.

We want chocolate!

Ok so let’s harness the power of blogging for the better good. Blog to get Chocolate Blogger Brian to bring desserts to the next Lunch2.0 event at Ning.

I want chocolate-covered maple pecans! Who’s with me?

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Shelf

If having a green thumb means being good at growing things, I have what’s called a black thumb. When shopping for plants, I always ask, “is it hard to kill?”

Every year in the spring I attempt to grow stuff. I’ve had some pretty good luck with basil and mint. But I heard they grow in the wild.

I’m wondering if there’s an application out there that can track my gardening habits. What plants I’ve experimented with, what plants still grow in my house, how long I’ve had them, maybe put in other factors like where I live,
how much sun a particular window gets…etc…and then using the data I’ve entered, the app will make recommendations on which plants I should buy so I don’t waste my money on something I will no doubt kill.

On a side note my husband — probably knowing that it’s that time again — made me this shelf right outside my kitchen window. So I went to the nursery today to get me some new green things. The guy swore they won’t die.

Cinco de Mayo

No Nachos but there was plenty of sun. After the morning basketball games, we spent the day in Santa Clara and enjoyed the wide open parking lots.

I confess. I’m on MySpace

Sigh. It’s time to admit it. I have a MySpace profile.

I resisted for a long time, but if I’m gonna be a true Web2.0 digerati wannabe I need to have one, no?

I created my profile, threw a bunch of pics in there. Added a few friends from work, a bunch of artists I want to follow. But if there’s one thing I can’t stand it would be an ugly lay out. I know that MySpace is customizable by CSS but they don’t really make it clear where to put your style sheet. Turns out you can put it anywhere…whu…what? Anywhere? Maybe I’m not cut out for this…I need structure…or uh…I need detailed instructions like “paste your CSS in this box.” Oh and I’m not that much of a techie either. I will figure it out but it will take me some time. And time wasn’t something I was willing to put into creating a MySpace layout.

So…I looked for some sort of a layout generator for MySpace…which there was a ton of…but I didn’t really like any of them. Most were ok in terms of functionality, but most of the time you can’t even find the link to the editor because the site is just littered with ads.

Now, I don’t mind ads. I know that in exchange for the “free” service I have to see ads. But I also didn’t come to the site to read ads.

So imagine how happy I was when I found RealEditor. They run Google ads too but they don’t get in the way of me doing what I came there to do. Edit my darn MySpace layout.

From the very beginning I knew that I was in the right place. I didn’t have to look for the editor. I find my choices right away.

But what I love the most is that it’s a WYSIWYG editor. You get to see changes to YOUR profile, not some generic layout. So you can edit your backgrounds and colors based on the stuff you already have on there.

You can also pick backgrounds from your Flickr or Photobucket accounts, if you don’t find anything you like from the hundreds of backgrounds they have available.

The other thing that gets me with those other MySpace layout editors is that they sound unprofessional. If someone asks me how I made my profile, I’d be a little hesitant to say “I did it on Pimp-My-Profile.com.” I mean…come on now. I’m a 29-year-old Marketing professional. Not to mention the code they give you would have a link to their site as well. So how about that. You create a nice and clean layout and right there on your page it says you did it on Pimp-My-Profile. Just sounds raunchy now, doesn’t it. To me at least.

On the other hand I wouldn’t hesitate at all to say that I made it on RealEditor. (My apologies, by the way…I took out the <realeditor> tags…but only after looking for their Terms of Service which doesn’t exist, by the way so I figured I could do it but I’m trying to make up for it by blogging about how much I love them…).

So yeah.

I made it on RealEditor.

A brand new start

Hi. I’m Lisa Amorao. And I’m a blogger.

It’s been a while since I started blogging and I’ve forgotten how it feels to start one. The anxiety of coming up with your very first post, wondering if anyone will ever land here and find my blog interesting. Not to mention the humongous task of networking just to get some traffic.

Sure, some people would say that they don’t care about whether people come to their blog. They blog for themselves. Right. And if they really mean it, that they don’t care about what people thought of their blog, then why bother taking it online? I just don’t get that and I refuse to believe it.

I’m not saying bloggers “sell out” to their audience. Just saying they do care. Even for a little bit.

And now I’m worried that my first ever post in my new blog was written all lame.

But bloggers understand the insecurity.

Lisa out.